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'Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia, as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information' [28v] (58/226)
The record is made up of 1 volume (111 folios). It was created in 1874. It was written in English. The original is part of the British Library: India Office The department of the British Government to which the Government of India reported between 1858 and 1947. The successor to the Court of Directors. Records and Private Papers Documents collected in a private capacity. .
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2G PRECIS OF INFORMATION REGARDING CONNECTION OF E. I. COMPY,
was informed that the Agent in Council at Gombroon could on no
account consent to his leaving Bussorah ; that of late years the desert had,
on several occasions, been overflowed, but that this circumstance had
never been considered a sufficient cause " for a step of that nature."
On the 10th June 1747 Mr. Grendon addressed a further letter to the
Agent in Council at Gombroon on the subject of this inundation, from
which the following is an extract:—
" These three days past the north-west winds have blown exceeding hard, which have
increased the waters around the city to that height, as to raise fears of this Government
for the safety of the walls, to secure which they yesterday caused public notice to be
given to all the inhabitants of all degrees (except the Europeans) to give their attend
ance and help for three successive days, conformable to which the whole town is now
out; yet notwithstanding this early precaution, the walls in several places are sapped by
the weight of waters, and three bastions are fallen in; however, I believe no further ill-
consequences will ensue to the city; but when the waters are almost all dried up, what
may then happen to the inhabitants God only knows, but already the poorer part
begin to grow sickly, as they are obliged to drink the water running off the desert, the
Shatal Arab being at too great a distance, besides there is little difference between
the one and the other, both being very bad."
65. The following extracts from the Gombroon
factory
An East India Company trading post.
diary for
the 1st February 1748, being the substance of a letter received from the
Resident at Bussorah, dated the 7th of the preceding month, contain an
account of the Dutch at Bussorah having returned to their settlement at
Bouehier,* of the French having withdrawn their
factory
An East India Company trading post.
from Bussorah,
and contain several items of intelligence from
Turkish Arabia
A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire.
:—
" The Dutch at Bussorah having received an invitation from Sanlah Caun
Sardar
Leader of a tribe or a polity; also refers to a military rank or title given to a commander of an army or division.
to return to their settlement at Bouchier, Mynr. Belvelt was gone again to reside
there, and carried with him a quantity of sugar, sugar-candy, camphire, and some
spices. Advises the departure of two large Moor's ships for Surat, and a freight ship
belonging to the Portuguese for Bengal, upon whom the French Resident withdrew
their concerns, and himself from Bussorah, not having received any allowance from
Pondicherry these two years past. Mentions a report there was of a
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
's coming
over the great desert which occasioned much confusion, and Solyman Kias tampering
with the Arabs, who wants to carry on affairs in the same manner that his father-in-law
Achmet
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
formerly did, and as opening the banks of the river is always pursued
on these occasions, is apprehensive of another pestilential disease, which, he fears, will be
attended with the utmost bad consequence. In a postscript he advises of having
received letters from Bagdad, and that the Grand Seignior had appointed Hadjee
Achmet
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Governor of Bussorah. Cour Vizier is to have Bagdad, and
Solyman
Kia
A deputy or lieutenant of the governor in Ottoman Iraq, with additional responsibilities as a high-ranking provincial judge.
, Audeen. Their
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
was expected in a few days, having been detained
some months at Bagdad on account of the death of Nadir Shaw, to whom he was going
Ambassador. He has appointed the Captain
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
his deputy till his arrival, which
has given the greatest content to the Arabs, who have suffered so long under the
arbitrary measures of Achmet
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
and his son-in-law, so there is no doubt but
the country will soon be in tranquillity."
66. The following extract from the same diary gives from a
letter from the Resident at Bussorah, dated the 13th March 1748, an
account of "an emeute which a short time before had taken place at
Bagdad:—
" There has lately been great disturbances at Bagdad, occasioned by the new
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
Cour Vizier's cutting off the heads of twelve of the principal zanysarees, and ordering
their bodies to be exposed in the public streets, which so incensed the several Chambers
of them that they immediately rose in arms, and seized the principal magazine, out
of which they took ten field-pieces, and planted them against the Serai, and began to
fire warmly at it, which soon obliged the
Bashaw
An Ottoman title used after the names of certain provincial governors, high-ranking officials and military commanders.
to retire on the other side the
* Bushire.
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The volume is Precis Containing Information in regard to the First Connection of the Hon'ble East India Company with Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. , as far as the Same Can Be Traced from the Records of the Bombay Government, together with the Names of the Several British Residents and Political Agents Who Have Been Stationed at Bagdad [Baghdad] and Bussorah [Basra] between A.D. 1646 and 1846, accompanied by Other Information (Calcutta: Foreign Department Press, 1874).
The volume includes a five paragraph introduction stating that the record had been compiled following a request to the Government of Bombay From c. 1668-1858, the East India Company’s administration in the city of Bombay [Mumbai] and western India. From 1858-1947, a subdivision of the British Raj. It was responsible for British relations with the Gulf and Red Sea regions. from the Government of India (folio 15). The information is a mixture of précis and direct quotation, with comments. The sources are correspondence; minutes; extracts from proceedings; treaties; lists; the diary of the Bombay Government; the diaries of Surat and Gombroon [Bandar Abbas]; reports; committee reports; dispatches to the Court of Directors The London-based directors of the East India Company who dealt with the daily conduct of the Company's affairs. ; statements from the Military Auditor-General; and firmans.
The record includes selected information on appointments; personnel; treaties; trade; relations with the Ottoman authorities; diplomatic contacts; political developments; climate and health; administration; and naval and martime affairs.
Five appendices at the rear of the volume (folios 85-109) give transcripts of treaties between England/the United Kingdom and the Government of the Ottoman Empire (the Sublime Porte), signed 1661-1809; and a 'Memorandum on the present condition of the Pachalic [Pachalik] of Bagdad and the means it possesses of renovation and improvement' dated 12 November 1834.
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There is an index on ff 2-15. The index gives the following information in parallel columns: year; miscellaneous information regarding Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. (ff 2-11); appointments etc. in Turkish Arabia A term used by the British officials to describe the territory roughly corresponding to, but not coextensive with, modern-day Iraq under the control of the Ottoman Empire. commencing with the year 1728 (ff 12-14); Euphrates expedition and flotilla (f 15); paragraph of summary; and page. Entries in the index refer to the numbered paragraphs that compose the main body of the text (headed 'Summary').
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Foliation: the foliation sequence commences at 1 on the first folio bearing text and terminates at 109, on the last folio bearing text. The numbers are written in pencil and enclosed in a circle and appear in the top right hand corner of the recto The front of a sheet of paper or leaf, often abbreviated to 'r'. page of each folio. There is also an original printed pagination, numbered i-xxviii (index); [1]-137 (main body of text); [i]-xlix (appendices).
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